/sci/ - Science & Math

Would there be any point of having a moonbase, or any sort of structure on the moon? Would it be financially viable to mine the moon?

The other day at a fondue party my friends and I were talking about the future and I told them about molecular assemblers and they were like WHOA and I'm going to gift one of them a copy of The Diamond Age :3

mommy am I helping :3

Question /sci/

When I give ground state electron configurations for transition metals, what comes first?

Say I have Cobalt.

Would it's electron configuration be [Ar]4s^2 3d^7 or [Ar]3d^7 4s^2

Or is it not important?

link to pdf
http://www.mediafire.com/?skk3e3jfiggmui5

>>2104329

>fundamental needs not at the fundament

What does a person, who has not learned any words or numbers think about?

8 4 5 9 1 2 6 4

If simple harmonic motion were simple, would it not be perpetual?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iYpxRXlboQ&feature=channel

A very good Watch for you guys

>>1339084
I believe this man may have reached a level of intelligence unforeseen before.

>>1289246
No I haven't and i'm slightly drunk, not wasted but just unclear head.

Right, so if I have the idea correct it's that the chances were too, well, chancy to be chance and that something influenced the outcome.

If that is it, all I have to see is have a look across the universe, all the stars may hold planets, some suitable for life (maybe europa and mars at some points having liquid water before its atmosphere was stripped) and most are not.

Although if this isn't what you mean feel free to explain and we shall have a gentlemanly debate on the matter.

it's fucking starting!
http://www.spacex.com/webcast.php

Hey /sci/ let's do some political science speculation. Medical science prolongs the human life span to some arbitrarily large number, but numerous biologists have speculated that the reason death exists at all is to allow for the cycling of genetic material, so their is room for the next generation to make it's innovations and do it's "thang".

If humans achieve functional longevity, both in body and mind, then over time, the newest generation will be a permanent minority, they will have the smallest voice politcally and economically as all who came before will out number them and have a considerable head start.

As a possible remedy to the political disenfranchisement of the next generation, perhaps applying a diminishing factor to ones voting power would be justifiable. Decide on some age m When you are deemed "adult", yes, this age will be mostly arbitrary, but lines will have to be drawn for impartiality's sake. your voting power would be described by the function e^-(x+m)/30. This gives people that have been voting citizens a voting power of about a 5th of a vote after 50 years, slowly approaching 0.

http://www.wimp.com/levitationphysicss/

Is this legit?